Genesis Market No Longer Feeds The Evil Cookie Monster

Genesis Market No Longer Feeds The Evil Cookie Monster By John Fokker and Ernesto Fernández Provecho · April 05, 2023 This blog was also written by Max Kersten We would like to thank Steen Pedersen and Mo Cashman for their remediation advice. On the 4th and the 5th of April, a law enforcement...

A Serial Tech Investment Scammer Takes Up Coding?

John Clifton Davies, a 60-year-old con man from the United Kingdom who fled the country in 2015 before being sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud, has enjoyed a successful life abroad swindling technology startups by pretending to be a billionaire investor. Davies newest invention appears to...

Threat Roundup for March 24 to March 31

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between March 24 and March 31. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

"Log-out king" Instagram scammer gets accounts taken down, then charges to reinstate them

A fraudster going by "OBN Brandon" has been defrauding Instagram influencers and entertainment figures out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by taking down their accounts and then asking for money to get them back up again, ProPublica reports. OBN has been successful in his exploits taking...

IcedID Malware Shifts Focus from Banking Fraud to Ransomware Delivery

Multiple threat actors have been observed using two new variants of the IcedID malware in the wild with more limited functionality that removes functionality related to online banking fraud. IcedID, also known as BokBot, started off as a banking trojan in 2017. It's also capable of delivering...

20-Year-Old BreachForums Founder Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 20-year-old founder and the administrator of the now-defunct BreachForums has been formally charged in the U.S. with conspiracy to commit access device fraud. If proven guilty, Fitzpatrick, who went by the online moniker "pompompurin," faces a maximum penalty of up to...

20-Year-Old BreachForums Founder Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 20-year-old founder and the administrator of the now-defunct BreachForums has been formally charged in the U.S. with conspiracy to commit access device fraud. If proven guilty, Fitzpatrick, who went by the online moniker "pompompurin," faces a maximum penalty of up to...

BreachForums to be shut down after all for fear of law enforcement infiltration

On March 15, 2023 US law enforcement arrested a man from New York who was accused of being the administrator of BreachForums, a well-known and probably the largest Dark Web marketplace for stolen data to be leaked and sold. At first, a new administrator rose to the occasion and said they were...

"ViLE" members posed as police officers and extorted victims

Two men have been charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit computer intrusions after they allegedly extorted victims by threatening to publish their personal information online--a practice known as doxxing. In a press release, the US Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of New York...

A week in security (March 13 - 19)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: "Brad Pitt," a still body, ketchup, and a knife, or the best trick ever played on a romance scammer, with Becky Holmes: Lock and Code S04E06 Breast cancer photos published by ransomware gang WhatsApp refuses to weaken encryption, would rather leave UK "Just awful"...

The Risk of Adding an Incorrect Previous Block Hash Value in a Blockchain Network

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact There is a risk of adding an incorrect previous block hash value to a block, either intentionally or unintentionally. If the previous block hash value is incorrect, it means that the data in the previous block has been tampered with, and the current bloc...

FakeCalls Vishing Malware Targets South Korean Users via Popular Financial Apps

An Android voice phishing aka vishing malware campaign known as FakeCalls has reared its head once again to target South Korean users under the guise of over 20 popular financial apps. "FakeCalls malware possesses the functionality of a Swiss army knife, able not only to conduct its primary aim b...

Investment fraud overtakes business email compromise as most reported fraud

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has published its 2022 Internet Crime Report. One of the most notable points is that investment fraud has now overtaken business email compromise BEC as the most reported and most damaging type of fraud. The numbers are based on the complaints reported to t...

Large-scale Cyber Attack Hijacks East Asian Websites for Adult Content Redirects

A widespread malicious cyber operation has hijacked thousands of websites aimed at East Asian audiences to redirect visitors to adult-themed content since early September 2022. The ongoing campaign entails injecting malicious JavaScript code to the hacked websites, often connecting to the target...

Shipt: Improper Access Control + Financial fraud allows attacker to disclose + add arbitrary products to another's user's order

The vulnerability allowed an attacker to add arbitrary products to another user's order before it was placed. The attacker could also disclose the content of the victim's order, including their physical address. This was possible due to improper access control and lack of input validation on the...

Xenomorph Android Banking Trojan Returns with a New and More Powerful Variant

A new variant of the Android banking trojan named Xenomorph has surfaced in the wild, latest findings from ThreatFabric reveal. Named "Xenomorph 3rd generation" by the Hadoken Security Group, the threat actor behind the operation, the updated version comes with new features that allow it to perfo...

PSA: Intentionally Leaving Backdoors in Your Code Can Lead to Fines and Jail Time

In the cybersecurity field, we talk a lot about threat actors and vulnerable code, but what doesn’t get discussed enough is intentional vulnerabilities and becoming your own threat actor. Even when making decisions with the best of intentions, it is possible to work against your own best interest...

Monetising hacking by shorting commodity shipments

I’m continually asked by the maritime industry about the motivations of hackers. “Why would anyone hack us, we operate ships?” It strikes me that many of the public and a lot of maritime businesses still think of the ‘hacker’ as a solo operator in a dark hoodie in a basement of their parents’...

DeepStreamer: Illegal movie streaming platforms hide lucrative ad fraud operation

This investigation was a joint effort between Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence's Jerome Segura, DeepSee's Rocky Moss and Antonio Torres. Key findings Over a dozen unique domains were found selling ad inventory through Google Ad Manager, even though the pages were embedded invisibly under the...

The vulnerabilities of the BIG-IP Access Policy Manager, as well as the BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager, BIG-IP Analytics, BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager, BIG-IP Application Security Manager, BIG-IP Hybrid Defender, BIG-IP Domain Name System, BIG-IP Fraud Protection Service, BIG-IP Link Controller, BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager, BIG-IP Orchestrator, allow a perpetrator to access confidential data.

The vulnerabilities of the BIG-IP Access Policy Manager, as well as the BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager, BIG-IP Analytics, BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager, BIG-IP Application Security Manager, BIG-IP Hybrid Defender, BIG-IP Domain Name System, BIG-IP Fraud Protection Service, BIG-IP Link...